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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: bill t. on June 03, 2013, 02:05:05 pm

Title: The photographer's mirror
Post by: bill t. on June 03, 2013, 02:05:05 pm

Here are some photographer mirror portraits and a brief history of copping attitudes behind the lens.  Tumblr sites are slippery targets so you may need to scroll down a bit as the best sinks inexorably into the past.

http://inneroptics.tumblr.com/

Frédéric Boissonnas
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/1f38bf34546882c1bf18c32fe4544479/tumblr_mntrihqkit1qhgogbo1_500.jpg)

Title: Re: The photographer's mirror
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on June 03, 2013, 02:29:30 pm

They only have one by Imogen Cunningham. My favorite of hers is from 1955:

http://www.photoliaison.com/Images/Imogen_Cunningham_Album/pages/Self-portrait%20with%20Grandchildren%20in%20Funhouse,%201955_jpg.htm (http://www.photoliaison.com/Images/Imogen_Cunningham_Album/pages/Self-portrait%20with%20Grandchildren%20in%20Funhouse,%201955_jpg.htm)

Title: Re: The photographer's mirror
Post by: Rob C on June 03, 2013, 02:57:15 pm

From today.

I find mirrors are irresistibly drawn to me: they pop out and grab me all the time. Such a bore.

;-)

Rob C

Title: Re: The photographer's mirror
Post by: Rob C on June 03, 2013, 03:08:31 pm

Quote from: bill t. on June 03, 2013, 02:05:05 pm

Here are some photographer mirror portraits and a brief history of copping attitudes behind the lens.  Tumblr sites are slippery targets so you may need to scroll down a bit as the best sinks inexorably into the past.

http://inneroptics.tumblr.com/

Nice little site; thanks for the link to it.

A few very venerable names there; Ugo Mulas was a very good fashion snapper who had wonderful speads in what I thinks is a now defunct fashion bible: Linea Italiana, that opened my eyes very wide in the 60s. I used to think Vogue was where it was at. Wrong; it was in Linea.

Wish I hadn't blown my chances of self-portraits with les girls; too blasé, thought it could never end, I could never age. Wrong again - almost a habit by now.

;-)

Rob C

Title: Re: The photographer's mirror
Post by: WalterEG on June 03, 2013, 07:07:41 pm

Not exactly in a mirror but .....

Title: Re: The photographer's mirror
Post by: Rocco Penny on June 03, 2013, 07:33:57 pm

hahaha
I couldn't help but think back to the day I scared myself.
So not looking in the mirror exactly, but looking for a way out of a department store I was somehow in.
You know those big three way store mirrors put there to see all sides of a suit?
Yeah just one of those and me, the effect was astounding.
I looked exactly like clint eastwood in joe kidd -but less handsome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoQYw49saqc